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Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did this for awhile and a huge problem was that people were training the models using content generated by ChatGPT. Trash goes in, trash comes out. That's the quality you get when you pay people peanuts I guess.

[–] alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

You can't mine gold from shit can you